When your oddity becomes your asset. When starting a new business it seemed every one was banging on about ‘identifying your USP‘ and it’s took me a while to work that out. What was unique about my business or service? Accessing business advisors and other entrepreneurs and mentors and search engines I googled’ til I […]
Rebecca now will be on annual leave until the 22nd of August. She will be staring at a view not unlike this. She may not be contemplating her own, or indeed anyone else’s career during this time. She will however resume her blog, renewed, on the 22nd of this month. Enjoy your summer! Rebecca: The […]
I have a colleague who has indeed ‘dared’ and I do believe she is winning. She has taken redundancy, left her ‘home’ city and taken off for a year to find how best she can ‘make a difference’? both in her own life and in a larger movement. To choose the best way to make […]
What if you could take charge of your brain instead of it taking control of you? What if we used our brains in service of our hearts, and not of our fears? From Eastern manta to NLP it is proven that when we raise our consciousness, when choose our thoughts, the effect on our minds, […]
What’s the opposite of shame? Is it being proud? Or is it having enough equilibrium and inner security to be open about who we are? I have held definition of ‘shame’ with me for many a year, so please forgive me if it is less than accurate. I do believe it still has integrity: “Guilt […]
I was watching a colleague of mine practising her fire-fan display and I suddenly really understood what it meant to ‘be in ones element’. Watching this beautiful woman embody a whole new, confident facet of herself was a real privilege. She was in the zone, in tune with the flames, she was absolutely aligned with […]
Every emotion, every connection, every experience and every moment passes.The only thing we can be certain of is change. This however is not easy to remember when we are in the midst of turmoil. I caught myself only this morning, watching as I wound myself into a frenzy, and I had to find a way […]
I am discovering a really useful professional motivator and, unexpectedly, it is anger. There are lots of messages that surround us regarding anger as an emotion. Often regarded as entirely socially and professionally unacceptable, it is easily forgotten that anger has is a normal response to hurt or misunderstanding. If we face an important ethical […]
I like this thought; “Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” S Peck. This is […]
I absolutely love it when a client comes to a session saying ‘I did all my homework’. This is not in service of my big fat ego, it is in service of my client beginning to reap the rewards they truly deserve There are many things that prevent us humans from taking the actions, on […]